Items matching horses

Carriage of the Fifteenth Century.

A woodcut based on a picture in a book from the 15th century. A cart or carriage is pulled by two horses. A man with a hat rides one of the horses and brandishes a whip; the horses are blinkered and [...]

Keywords: carriages, costumes, people, horses

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-06

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Frontispiece: The Horses of San Marco, Looking North.

Bronze (or painted) statues of horses in strong sunlight. The printed colours or this painting do not reproduce well on the screen. There is a caption, “By permission of the Hon. John Collier.”

Keywords: statuary, pillars, animals, horses

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-04-12

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St. George and the Dragon

An engraving showing a statue of St. George slaying the dragon, by J. E. Boehm, A.R.A. St. George is here depicted as an almost-naked man riding a horse, a Roman centurian wearing only sandals and a h [...]

Keywords: statues, dragons, people, weapons, animals, horses

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-10-28

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They knelt on the seat, and fired deliberately

It’s winter, and the horses are pulling the sleigh over the snow and through the forest, with wolves in hot pursuit. The young pepole (teens?) in the back are firing thri rifles at the wolves. “Annie [...]

Keywords: horses, carts, people, guns, wolves, winter, snow, trees, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-11-16

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Going Home to Love in a Cottage

A man leads a horse through the snow, at night. He holds on to his hat with one hand. The very spot where the Snorkers held a pic-nic. Oh! didn’t the ladies cry out in one voice, “I could live in suc [...]

Keywords: snow, christmas, people, animals, horses

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-12-11

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Knight and Hermit

A knight in armour carrying a shield is on foot, leading his horse. He stands by a tree in front of a church or monastery door. A bearded monk beckons him in, pointing towards the open door. In a nic [...]

Keywords: castles, trees, hills, towers, knights, animals, horses, monks, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-11

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Sheridan’s Ride by T. Buchanan Read

“Sheridan’s next operations, however, were the most important, as they have become the most renowned, in his career. Passing through Strasburg [USA], he posted his troops on the further bank of Cedar [...]

Keywords: people, soldiers, horses, swords, american civil war

Places shown: Strasburg; Pennsylvania; USA

Added: 2006-08-30

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Napoleon and the Sphinx

[Napoleon] was bent on the conquest of Egypt. He appears to have had something visionary in his temperament, and to have dreamed of founding a mighty empire from the stand-point of the East, the glow [...]

Keywords: monuments, people, horses, soldiers, deserts, mythological creatures

Places shown: Egypt

Added: 2006-09-02

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Ancient Half-Timbered Houses, Foregate Street

“Turning now from the outside of the walls to the inside, we must remember that the four Roman Streets, intersecting one another at right angles, have always been the features which determined the who [...]

Keywords: houses, street scenes, horses, carts

Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England

Added: 2006-10-11

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135b.—Antique engraving of a horse

This picture of a horse was engraved on brass and included in the 1678 edition of this book. It is taken from Tab. I.

Keywords: animals, horses

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-06-13

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135a.—Antique engraving of a horse

This picture of a horse was engraved on brass and included in the 1678 edition of this book. It is taken from Tab. I.

Keywords: animals, horses

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-06-27

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Frontispiece: Alice and the White Knight

“It was a glorious victory, wasn”t it?’ said the White Knight, as he came up panting. “I don’t know,” Alice said doubtfully. “I don’t want to be anybody’s prisoner. I want to be a Queen.” “So you will [...]

Keywords: knights, alice, horses, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-19

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